Posterity Quotes

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

~ Tacitus

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after day will stay on for posterity to meet. Be a world changer and work out your dreams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.The heartthrobs of the prophets and the sagesBeat through these bindings; and my quick hand slipsOld books from dusty shelves, in eager seekingFor truths the flaming tongues of the ancients tell;For the words of wisdom that they still are speakingAs clearly as an echoing silver bell.Here is the melody that lies foreverAt the deep heart of living; here we keepThe accurate recorded discs that neverCan be quite silenced, though their makers sleepThe still deep sleep, so long as a seeker findsThe indelible imprint of their moving minds.

~ Grace Noll Crowell

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

~ Kevin Kelly

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

~ John Adams

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.

~ William Shakespeare

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

~ Alexandre Dumas

You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Your thought should be creative and not destructive, it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now!

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

You create and plan your thought by seeing, reading and hearing the right things.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Learn to live from inside to outside, bring out those magnificent estates within you and live in them.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Live on your good thoughts and they will manifest outwardly.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Your life today and tomorrow is patterned alongside your thoughts. You are therefore advised to create good and wonderful thoughts today so they will deliver a beautiful tomorrow for you.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Your future will definitely head to the same direction with your thoughts, this is why planning your thought is so important.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

~ Don Delillo

I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity—damn posterity.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

~ Robert Bringhurst

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

~ Irvine Welsh

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

~ Henry Fielding

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

~ Antoine Lavoisier